Washing machine



Nov. 13 1923.` l

l.. v. MARTEL ET AL.

WASHING. MACHINE Filed May 20,

3 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTC RN EY Nov. 13 1923.

WITNESSES L. V. MARTEL ETIAL WASHING MACHINE Filed May 20. 1922 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 lNVENTOR ATTO RN EY Nov. 13 1923.

WASHING MACHINE 3 Sheets-Shet 3 Filed May 2 0, 1922 ATTORNEY WITNESS:

Patented Nov. 13, 1923.

UNTTED STATES LOUIS V. MARTEL AND PHILIP METHOT, OF MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHRE, AS`

SIGNORS OF ONE-THIRD TO OSCAR F.

- SHIRE.

l 1,474,277 PATENT risica.'

MOREAU, or' MANCHESTER, NEW HAMP- 'WASHING MACHINE.

T0 ad whom t may concern! Be it known that we. Loris V. MARTEL and Piume ME'rHoT, citizens of the United States. residing aty Manchester. in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire. have invented new and useful Improvements in vashing Machines, 'of which the following is a specification.

As in our United States Letters-Patent granted February Q2. 1921. and No. 1,369,686, our present invention has reference to a clothesl washing apparatus.

Our object is to simplify and improve the construction 4disclosed in our said patent.

Other objects will also appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, reference being had to the drawings which accompany and form part of this specification.

In the drawings Figure l is a side elevation of the iniprovement.

Figure 2 is a top plan view thereof.

Figure 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view approximately on the .line 3 3 of Figure l.

Figure 4 is a horizontal sectional view approximately on the line 1-4 of Figure 1.

Figure 5 is a sectional view on the-line 5-5 of Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a sectional view on the line 6-6 of Figure 3.

As in the construction disclosed by our mentioned Patent No. 1,369,686, we dispense with the employment of dashers, pounders, and other devices which are liable to inflict injury to clothes in the washing thereof, and in lieu thereof subject the clothes to a continuous whirling action of water delivered under pressure th'ereagainst, the said water being continuously used during the washing operation and therefore effecting a saving of the water.

ln our referred to patent, we made use of four rotary pumps which forcibly delivered streams of water through apertured compartments at.v varying elevations. This manner of delivering saponaceous water is also resorted to in our present construction, but in lieu of forming the casing `or tub with integral apertured compartments, we employ a perforated member in the nature of a clothes receiving basket through which the fluid outlets from a single pump are arranged at varying heights.- Also in our present construction, we aim to materially simplify and cheapen the drive means for lthe pump aswell as to likewise simplify and the numeral l designates a preferably metal casing thatl constitutes l.the body of the improvement. The casing is preferably square o1' rectangular in plan and has its upper edge reinforced by metal members 2, and.

the corners of the casing having attached thereto legs 3 which are preferably constructed of angle irons and which depend a suit-able distance below the bottom of the casing. The legs preferably have their lower ends enlarged or otherwise formed with feet 4 that afford a irm bearing in the floor or other support for the device. Preferably there is connected with each of the legs, at the bottom thereof, a bearing for a roller,- and above the rollers the legs support a flanged tray or false' bottom 5. On this tray there is secured a motor 6. The motor is preferably electrically driven and, is provided with suitable controlling means. On the motor shaft there is keyed or otherwise secured a worm gear 7 which is in mesh with a worm gear 8 on a cross shaft 9 which is journaled in suitable bearings supported upon the tray. These bearings also support a boxing that provides a case for a portion of a shaft 9 and for the worm gears 7 and 8. In the boxing 50 thereeis arranged on the shaft 9 a slidable friction clutch element 51.

The element 51 has a hub or sleeve portion 53 that receives a spline 44 on the shaft 9. The hub is also provided with an annular groove in which there is received the bifurcated or forked end of a lever 55 which is pivotally supported, as at 56, upon the top of the boxing 50. Journaled in suitable bearings in the side of the boxingr 50 is a shaft 57. rlhis shaft, at a portion thereof arranged in the boxing, has a cam head 58. The shaft 57 has its'end provided with an angle lever 57 which is vertically directed and which has thereon a lug. The lever is received in a slotted guide 58 that is provided with two spaced notches in either of which the lug on the lever is to be received, as when the clutch element 51 is moved in either a forward or rearward direction.

Secured at one end of the boxing 50 there is n shaft 59 which is in longitudinal alignment with the shaft 9. n the shaft 59 there is secured a female friction clutch elespectively, .each directed to the corners 'aty the bottom of the' casing. These branch Kso pipes are connected to the loutlet pipe by a coupling 27. Threadedly engaging or, if desired, providing extensions for the branches 21 there are vertically disposed pipes 22 that enter the easing at the corners thereof. Each of these pipes is of a different length, one of the pipes terminating very close to the bottom of the casing,

another at a still further distance above the bottom and the last pipe 22 terminates near the top of the casing. All of the pipes 22 have angle nozzle ends 24, directed'toward the center of the casing 1. It is'to'be understood that Saponaceous water isv poured into the open top of the casing, so that the same will pass through the intake 18 intor the pump casing and when the pump is operated such water will be ejected through the outlet pipe 2O and the branches therefor and be forcibly directed at different angles through the nozzles 24.

The clothesfreceiving receptacle or basket is in they nature4 of a cylindrical /member and is broadly indicated by the numeral 25. The basket 25 has its upper edge provided with a flange 26, the said flange corresponding tov the interior shape of the casing 1, and consequently is in contact with all of the four sides thereof. The nozzles l24. pass through openings in the sides of the`basket,

I and the said basket hasits lower wall provlded with depending plates 27 arranged yau angularly with respect to each other and having their lower edges cut at an inclinatlon to rest on the inclined portions of the bottom yof the dasing 1. The plates 27 thus hold the bottom of the basket elevated with respect to the bottom of the' casing, and the forcibly injected sprays of Vwater finding an outlet through the reticulatedbasket will Y be brought into contact with the plates.

The plates thus serve as obstructing elements for the whirling stream \of water, and direct the same to the intake 18 ofthe pump so that such water will be delivered intov the an, other -a suitable distance above the bottom,-

yof the improvement.

pump casing at a steady and not in a whirli inner end of the said branch being in the nature of a seatki for the saidl valve. The valve is in the nature of a flat member, round in plan, and having an ear 32 at its upper end which`is seated in a suitable pocket provided in the coupling 27. The

ear is provided with a stem 33 that passes through one side of the coupling, the stem being in the nature of a shaft, and the end thereof not passing through the coupllngl being received in a bearing depression provided therefor. The projecting end of the stem or shaft has a handle-34. rlhe wall ofthe coupling opposite the valve seat may be notched, as at 36 and lthe valve 31 1S' limited when moved to a, position to open the branch 28 by contact with the shoulder provided by the said notch. The upper sec-fl` tion`-of the coupling 27 necessarily includes 95 A four branches, and to the respective branches the pipes 21 are connected. The branches 37 of the couplin are rounded upwardly from the straight lo coupling. The upper and inner wall of the wer portion of the said coupling-at the juncture of the branches 37 therewith is substantially V-shaped in cross section and is centrally provided with a threaded opening. ln this opening there is screwed a bolt 39 that has its lower endpoint'ed, as at 40. rlhe pointed end 40 of the bolt defines four right angular substantially V-shaped faces. The bolt 39 is designed to direct water throu h the respective ports 37 of the coupling 2 so that substantially an equal amount of water will be directed through all of the pipes 21 from the pump.

' -It is believed that the foregoing descripi tion, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings will fully set forth thel construction,` operationv and advantages It will be apparent to those skilled in the art to which this invention relates that clothes placed in the basket and subjected to the forcibly injected angle streams of water that r'pass through the nozzles will contact with the clothes at different angles and in this manner remove the dirt from the clothes. @ther than the sprays of water delivered against the clothes, there is no. ounding action and it is never necessary or the operator to place his hands in the basket except for the insertion and removal of the clothes.

Thus

-V cleaned without danger of injury thereto.

The clutch operated lever is disposed conveniently with respect to the hand of the operator. The motor controlled means is arranged` conveniently for actuation by the foot of the operator. After the washing process the water is let out of the device in a manner as previously described.

Having described the invention, claim l. In a clothes washing machine, a casing having a downwardly inclined bottom, a lluid pump having an intake pipe connected with the lowest part of the bottom. an outlet pipe for the pump. branches secured thereto anddirected through different parts of the bottom adjacent to the sides of the casing, the outlet pipes in the casing being of different lengths and having nozzles secured to the ends thereof, a removable reticulated clothes receiving basket arranged in the casing and h'avin its bottom provided with depending p ates which rest on the bottom of' the casing, and means for operating the pump.

2. In a clothes washin machine, a casing having Fa substantia ly` funnel-shaped bottom, a rotary pump having an inlet con nected to the lowest part of the bottomV of thecasing, an outlet'for ther pump having branches through the bottom adjacent to the corners of the casing and terminating -at dierent elevations in the casing, a removable lforaminous basket in the casing having a flanged upper edge to contact with the walls of the casing, and means o n the bottom thereof resting on the bottom of the casing providing batlles for the water from the pump to direct the same in a steady stream into the intake of the pump, nozzles between the outlet branches of the pump andthe basket, a motor drive ,for the pump, clutch means between the shaft ofthe motor and the shaft of the pump, and operating means for said clutch means. In testimony whereof we affix our signatures.

Louis v. MARTEL. PHILIP METHoT.

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